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The city of Orlando is the county seat of Orange County, Florida. As of the 2000 census,
the city population was 185,951 (metropolitan area 1,644,561). A 2005
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population count gave the city population was 213,233 (metropolitan area over 1.8 million).
It is the sixth-largest city in Florida,
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and its largest inland city. It is also at the
head of the state's third-largest metropolitan area, behind Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm
Beach and Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. Additionally Orlando is
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home to the second
largest university in Florida, the University of Central Florida.
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The city is well known for the tourist attractions in the area, particularly the nearby Walt
Disney World Resort, which is in the Reedy Creek Improvement District . Other area attractions
include SeaWorld and Universal Orlando Resort. Despite being far from the main tourist attractions,
downtown Orlando has recently seen much redevelopment, with many more projects currently under
construction or planned. One of the oldest
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attractions in this area is Gatorland. Orlando sees
an estimated 52 million tourists a year. Orlando is the 2nd largest city in the country for
number of hotel rooms. It is a leader in medical care and research, especially at Orlando
Regional Medical Center, the only statutory teaching hospital in Central Florida.
The city's nickname is "The City Beautiful", though plans
are underway to change this title
through a local contest. Its symbol is the fountain of Lake Eola. The current mayor is Buddy Dyer.
Some historians date Orlando's name to around 1836 when a soldier named Orlando Reeves
allegedly died in the area, during the war against the Seminole Indian tribe. It seems,
however, that Orlando Reeves (sometimes Rees) operated
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a sugar mill and plantation about
30 miles (50 km) to the north at Spring Garden in Volusia County, and pioneer settlers
simply found his name carved into a tree and assumed it was a marker for a grave site.
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They thus referred to the area as "Orlando's grave" and later
simply "Orlando."
During the Second Seminole War, the U.S. Army established an outpost at Fort Gatlin, a few
miles south of the modern downtown, in 1838. But it was quickly abandoned when the war
came to an end.
Prior to being known as its current name, Orlando was known as Jernigan, after the first
permanent settler, cattleman Aaron Jernigan, who acquired
land along Lake Holden by the terms of the Armed
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Occupation Act of 1842. But most pioneers did not arrive until after the Third Seminole
War in the 1850s. Most of the early residents made their living by cattle ranching.